A team of recent Pratt alumni, including Ziyan Wu, Yushu Zhuang, Yirong Zhang, and Yunyu Huang, all BFA Interior Design ’24, was among the top 10 finalists and won the People’s Choice Award at the Accor Design Awards 2024 for their project Sofitel Shanghai: The Light Beyond.
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Practice in Fine Arts Carlos Motta was featured in ArtNet for his series “Descubriendo el nuevo mundo” or “Discovering New World.” Motta used AI to create work that responds to the 16th-century Flemish engraver Theodore de Bry’s visual depictions of the Americas, “flip[ping] the script on de Bry’s austere whitewash of the violence of conquest.”
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Rob Redding, MFA Fine Arts ’22, celebrated ten years and 2,000 episodes of his podcast, Redding News Review Unrestricted. “I am very fortunate to have such a faithful audience of subscribers who have helped solidify my longevity in Black-focused news talk,” said Redding.
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Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Information Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz co-organized the Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies (GSIS) 2024 conference at Princeton University, where Xavi Danto, MSLIS ‘25, presented “Linked Data and Sex Archives.” Smith-Cruz and Claudia Berger, MSLIS ’21, also recently presented at “Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Identity and Libraries” hosted by NYU Libraries.
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Art by Terry Winters, BFA ’71, is reviewed in Whitehot Magazine. “With hesitation one can only posit what Winters level of study would have produced had he taken up the field of science, rather than his dedication devoted to the calling he has pursued?” writes Edward Waisnis. “This thought is approached with hesitation since the realization of such an alternative would result in an intense loss. We benefit having Winters in the upper tier of contemporary painting.”
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Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller, MS Communications Design ’85, was interviewed for PRINT Magazine.
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Allegra Burnette, visiting assistant professor in the School of Information, has been appointed the first Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at the Museum of the American Revolution.
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Pratt is included in the Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition that features sustainability and other information from 511 schools.
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Kaimin Wang, BFA Interior Design ’24, participated in and won the UNI Moon Base competition 2024 with his entry Future City of Mars Colonization.
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Suzanne Vanderbilt, BID ‘55, was featured for her design work at GM. “Suzanne was inspired by an instructor at Pratt Institute to pursue automotive design,” writes Jonathan Lopez. “She became one of the so-called Damsels of Design, working alongside several other women to create a variety of iconic pieces of GM design work.”
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